Great deal on a movie starting today

If anyone is interested Snow white and the seven dwarfs comes out tommorrow on a special blu-ray and dvd combo. There is a $10 off coupon on the website at the bottom. Walmart has it on special for 19.95 so that makes it right around 10 bucks. That is a super cheat idea for a family christmas movie, if you are like our family we always give/get movies for christmas. Anyway target and best buy have it for 24.95 and kmart for 27.95, here is the link for the coupon if anyone is interested. The movie comes out tomorrow.

http://adisney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/snowwhite/couponoffer/?cmp=dmov_dvd_sno_coupon_url_swoffer

Also if you buy a participating hefty product you get another $5 off in form of a rebate. here is the link for that website.
http://heftybrands.pactiv.com/Movierebate2/Default.aspx

Back from cali

Oh we love those days, when there are more loves than the other stuff
OUr beach baby, tanning by the pool (with floatees of course)


Alayna wearing the coveted BYU hat and daddy's flip flops

Austin making himself into a volcano, he thought this was the coolest ever.

Austin showing off his photographer skills. He loves taking pictures now, so we will have to do something about that.

The kids at quail botanical gardens playing floor tic tac toe, they also had a treehouse, a sundial, musical toys, and lots more for the kids to do. It was really fun and really creative.

Our neighbor got us some tickets to the Angels game, but we missed the big winning the series game, which was the night before. It was so much fun. Thanks Peter.



More picture of the angels game at:
http://www.printroom.com/ViewGallery.asp?evgroupid=0&userid=AngelsTrueFans&gallery_id=1780307&curpage=2

Okay so I know that it has been forever since I have done a post, but here I am and that is all that counts. Right??!! Hopefully I will do a little bit better from now on. We went to Escondido, cali for the week, and had a blast. Our goal was to spend the least amount of money, while having a ton of fun. I think we managed to keep our budget pretty low key. We did a few free things like some fun beaches. We didn't do Disney or sea world or anything, just some good quality fun, and really..... I think it was our funnest family vacation yet. We had to get creative, but thanks to a few tips from friends we were able to make it a memorable experience and really got to see awesome things that you usually don't really get around to seeing.

So long, MARTHA

So I am a pretty big Martha Stewart fan, and I usually record her show every day and then watch it during the week while I am cleaning house, folding laundry or ironing. During the election I was pretty tolerant of all her political comments, but last week she stepped way over the line. Come on this is a day time show about crafts, sewing, cooking and gardening that talks about ways to make your home better, not some way to advance your political agendas and have guests on that will accomplish that!! So I just wanted to let everyone to know that I am saying a farewell to MARTHA! I have had it with her and will have to fill my quiet time with something a little more useful. You have any ideas for a better program, please feel free to let me know!

Little Helper

So my house has been a complete disaster lately so Monday I finally decided to buck up and spent some good time on it to clean it well. Here is a picture of the kids going through my bathroom cupboard making ONE (of many) of their little daily messes. As you can see they unwrapped the entire box of Tampons and Alayna is eating one. I just about died, when I walked into this. YOu know that when it is pretty quiet with two babies in the house that nothing good can come of it, yesterday I was trying to get something else done and they had ripped apart the ENTIRE office. NO pictures of that one. Austin is a really good helper, at least most of the time. I guess he was in a pretty silly mood yesterday because I was vacuuming and turned around to pull it closer and saw Austin riding on it. Then he proceeded to help me take all the clean clothes out of the dryer, by climbing in and throwing them out, making sure he made a big explosion noise with each one as he threw it into the basket. He is definately the big helper around the house and even lets alayna know when she is stepping out of line, I guess I will have to break him of that one. I keep telling him he isn't the one in charge, But you know 2 year olds, they are all in charge.

Pay it Forward

I was the first to comment on Tara's blog! So here goes, folks...let's pay it forward!
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There is so much that Has been going on over the last few months, so this is going to be a long post to catch you up on everything that has been going on. Well for december anyway. We had a great snow storm before christmas so Austin had a blast playing in the snow. Austin and his friend Brayden on the sled, you can tell they are freezing but having too much fun, we didn't stay out much longer.

Cade pulling Austin on his sled at Cox park. They had fun going down the little hill.

Daddy and Austin had to get their hands cold in the snow and make a snowman of course, But mostly Todd built the snow man and Austin had fun throwing snow at him while he was working on it. They also had a little snow fight with the neighbors. It was everyone against Todd, but of course they had fun.

Here is one of the few pictures that I took on Christmas Morning of Alayna with her Shopping Cart. She has caught right on to walking around with it.

Here is Austin playing with his Train from Santa, He has loved it so much and was so into playing with it that he didn't want to open of his other presents, which is probably normal at this age. We had a great morning and Todd got his blu-ray player that he was wanting so badly. I had battle wounds from the morning fight at walmart black friday. Probably won't do that again, but thanks for going with me Melinda.

We went to Disney land, and had a great time. I thought that maybe the kids would be a little too young, but it is confirmed, I don't think that anyone is the wrong age for Disneyland. Here are the boys sporting their pirate hats that we got from the New Orleanes Cafe, we went to great lengths to get our Monte Cristo Sandwich at our trip to disney, and it was well worth it.

Austin Loves Mickey mouse and sleeps with him every night but when it came to seeing Goofy he had to stand in line to get a picture with him. Too bad his big nose is coving his face. I think our favorite rides were all the ones decked out for Chrismas, the Haunted Mansion and Its a Small world were so captivating. We also went on buzz light year a few times, but I think that Monsters, Inc was the ride that we went on the most which I think was like 4 times or something. Then we had to pry Austin off the ride the last time through, He loved it.

Austin and cousin Vallie got along great the whole trip, and here is a little picture of them having to hold hand throughout the trip.

These next few are at the beach just right down from our hotel, we ended up taking the kids down there for the afternoon and the weather was great, and not a soul in sight. Here are my attempts to get creative with my photos.

So danty

Austin at the Newport temple, Taking time to smell the flowers